A judge has thrown out a protester’s lawsuit challenging Victoria’s stay-at-home orders during the state’s extended lockdown last year, saying the relevant provisions in the government’s emergency legislation were valid “in all their potential operations”.
The maker of Finish dishwashing products is seeking an urgent injunction to clear a competitorâs products from supermarket shelves, alleging trademark infringement over âdeceptively similarâ packaging depicting dishwasher gel caps.
International sporting goods giant Decathlon has been ordered to pay a $1.5 million penalty for selling hundreds of basketball hoops and inflatable swimming pools that did not comply with mandatory safety standards.
Prosecutors might cut the number of criminal cartel charges levelled against money transfer business Vina Money and five individuals who allegedly fixed the foreign exchange rate on millions of dollars transferred between Australian and Vietnam between 2011 and 2016, a court has heard.
Worley crafted the budget behind an allegedly misleading 2014 earnings guidance so that its shares could be rated as a âgrowth stockâ, the Full Court has heard as shareholders seek to revive a failed class action against the engineering company.
Three Clive Palmer-owned companies have filed a breach of trust lawsuit against HWL Ebsworth, funder Vannin Capital and the liquidators of Queensland Nickel attempting to recoup $102 million transferred after the billionaire suffered a courtroom defeat earlier this year.
A judge has refused to order Commonwealth Bank of Australia to publish notice of a $7 million penalty in a case brought by ASIC on its mobile app, but the bank will have to alert customers to its misconduct on its website and online newsroom.
Google will have to hand over documents relating to its infamous ‘Oh Shit’ meeting to the ACCC, with a judge finding the material was “sufficiently likely” to be relevant to any penalties the search giant will face for misleading consumers about use of their location data.
Auctus Resources will not be able to hang on to a $2.3 million R&D tax offset refund which the Full Court found was paid by mistake, after the High Court turned down its special leave application.
A judge has allowed a new applicant to lead a shareholder class action against recycling company Sims Metal Management, ruling that he could not force the original applicant to continue in the role when it wanted to back out.